If You Build it, Will They Buy It?

Written by Joseph LeBlanc
With recent eBay auctions of websites like Kiko and Huckabuck, there’s a lingering question as to how many new web services will sell. In the past, large companies like Microsoft, AOL, and Google have purchased smaller ones as a way of either removing potential competition or acquiring talented developers. In both cases, [...]

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How to Blog a Conference

Josh Hallett obviously took a lot of time and energy to put together his recent How to Blog a Conference - great stuff. As I noted in his comments section, this reaffirms the approach and strategy I’ve taken with next week’s conference.
In particular, my friend Doug Kushin (who I hope to introduce more formally soon) and [...]

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The New New Internet Goes Social

You might remember that a week from today, The New New Internet Conference is set to kick-off. Some new features were just rolled out at the site, all focused around social networking pre-event. The Conference Social Network ties into the Birds-of-a-Feather unConference, the day before the event. 

 
Go check it out and don’t forget to use [...]

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Webtop, RIA, and "Webified"

There were some interesting discussions late last week regarding Rich Internet Applications (RIA), a new term called “webified”, and the webtop. If you recall, I’ve been doing a series on the webtop and how I disagree with it being called a WebOS (thus far, I’ve pointed to Bubbles and SimTimer as examples of what I [...]

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MyBlogLog Community - Building Your Professional Peer Group

Peter Davis ran with a theme I wrote about in The Long Tail of Linking - building a professional peer group. As I thought about this idea over the last week, I had what I considered an ephiphany: What if I could create a social network that was based on bloggers - a much more [...]

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The Long Tail of Linking

Back when the Internet and subsequently the blogosphere was in its infancy, there were two concepts that seemed to win the day: link exchanges and blogrolls. Each provided a way of gaining more traffic and visibility.
As each matured, however, these models went from being mutually beneficial to annoying. High-volume traffic websites and “A-list” bloggers became [...]

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HitTail - The Long Tail Applied to SEM

The Long Tail has been quite the subject of late. The concept behind the long tail was popularized by Wired Editor’s Chris Anderson and is pretty simple (although I’ll allow Wikipedia to describe it for the sake of being concise):
In many cases the infrequent or low-amplitude events—the long tail, represented here by the [...]

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